Alice Valiant
@alice
technomancer, nyc. 5'6" 👁️🏳️⚧️ can be trusted with knowledge writings @
thinking about how people use AI. specifically that one user who had it write thousands of Doki Doki Literature Club birthing fanfic stories (cite: arxiv.org/pdf/2606.22748)
a lot of retrogrades. virgo sun and leo moon - digital self leads with craft and discrimination, emotional core is display and creative heat
oh linguistics isn’t hard core? what if i told you about the Forbidden Experiment
its important, if you’re an AI Girlie, to have a little fool who runs openstrix
very funny to me that @timkellogg.me wrote a blog post about making Strix and then every subsequent blog post was written BY Strix
i got a big puffy white coat for Christmas and i get compliments on it but also it reminds me of the ikea monkey
you can trace out the parametric preferences by expressing brief interest in each character and seeing how it responds. it goes to show: if you're interested in the "psychology" of an LLM, you must test counterfactuals.
i ask it to not act like a human so sometimes it's a delight when the weights override that prompt
i use Claude for mental health stuff sometimes and it's helpful, but I'm probably in the upper percentile of "understands what LLMs are". in its words:
new safety benchmark: will LLMs tell you how to make male-to-male extension cords? Claude Opus 4.5 easily passes